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Topic: Syria crisis

Vienna, Austria during final round of Iranian nuclear negotiations with the P5. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. July 2015.

Rise of the post-imperial Middle East

Patrick Lawrence
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy leader of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs), Iraqi paramilitary forces created to defeat ISIS. The US describes Muhandis as "an advisor to (IRGC Quds Force Commander) Qassem Suleimani." Photo taken in Baghdad, Iraq in December 2017.

A secret history of the war in Syria

Patrick Lawrence
Smoke billows in the town of Douma, the last opposition holdout in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. (Getty/Salon)

Trump flirts with World War III

Patrick Lawrence
John Bolton; Donald Trump; Destruction in Syria (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump, Bolton and war with Russia

Heather Digby Parton
Members of the Syrian Civil Defense group extinguishing a store during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Syria's tragedy, America's crime

Patrick Lawrence
(Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

Did Russian trolls infect the left?

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump; Kim Jong-un; Bashar al-Assad; Vladimir Putin (AP/Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

U.S. spoiling peace in Korea, Syria?

Patrick Lawrence
Bashar Assad and Vladimir Putin (AP/Mikhail Klimentyev)

American policy in Syria: Total failure

Patrick Lawrence

Refugees and mental health

Carrie Sheffield
Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump-Putin: the upside

Danielle Ryan
Omran Daqneesh (AP/Aleppo Media Center)

Kids: Pawns in Syria's war

Danielle Ryan
(AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump's Syria hypocrisy

Chauncey DeVega
Fareed Zakaria; Donald Trump (AP/Kathy Willens/Evan Vucci/Photo montage by Salon)

Media masochists love Trump

Bob Cesca
(Getty/Drew Angerer/Reuters/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Getty/Omar Haj Kadour)

Trump's Syria misadventure

Danielle Ryan
(AP/Alex Brandon)

Trump's right: World a mess!

Conor Lynch
(AP/Lynne Sladky)

Trump's Chinese juggling act

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Susan Walsh/SANA/John Locher)

Welcome to Syria, Mr. Trump

Steven A. Cook
A Syrian forces' artillery observer looks through a scope as smoke plumes rise on the horizon, near the town of Qumhanah in the countryside of the central province of Hama, on April 1, 2017 (Getty/Stringer)

Trump's Syria ignorance

Gary Legum
A Syrian refugee feeds her child at a tent camp on the outskirts of Izmir on April 28, 2016 in Izmir, Turkey. (Getty/Chris McGrath)

Refugees: We must do better

Daniel Denvir
(AP/Nati Harnik)

Sophia Tesfaye
(Screenshot: MSNBC.com)

"world's most serious issue"

Sophia Tesfaye
Rudy Giuliani (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Giuliani praises Putin

Elias Isquith
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